Cape Town Film Incentive

Type of Incentive
There are two programs:

1.       Location Incentive – available for facilitation projects.

2.       Co-production Incentive – available for official co-productions (South Africa has co-production treaties with UK, Germany, France, Canada,
          Australia and Italy).

Incentive calculation

1.       Location Incentive - 20% of qualifying South African spend (defined as spend on South African goods and services and South African labour).

2.       Co-production Incentive - 35% to 25% of qualifying South African spend.

Qualifying criteria

1.       Location Incentive – SA spend must be at least R 12million (USD 1.5million) and SA shoot must be at least 4 weeks and 50% of total shoot.

2.       Co-production Incentive – total spend must be at least R 2.5million (USD 312k) and SA shoot must be at least 2 weeks and 50% of total shoot.

The SA shoot rule may be waived at DTI’s discretion for projects with SA spend exceeding R 100million (USD 1.25million)

Eligible formats: feature films, telemovies, television series, documentaries and animation.

Payment of Incentive

1.       Location Incentive – paid upon completion of the project.

2.       Co-production Incentive – where the film is bonded the incentive is paid in milestones over the course of the production.